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    Want to boot to Command line

    So this might be backwards, but sometimes I have been known to be.

    I want to boot 12.04 to command line vs X, and initiate X after when I need to, but can't find how I would disable X on boot up.

    The reason is I'm getting lazy on using the command line unless I am not sure how to do it graphically.

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    Re: Want to boot to Command line

    Code:
    echo  "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override
    You can then use startx whenever you want a GUI.
    Cheesemill

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    Re: Want to boot to Command line

    Thanks, missed looking for disabling lightdm, or the obvious tag "boot without X"


    this worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...0#post10798400"]
    Last edited by otetiani; October 19th, 2012 at 06:22 PM.

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